Two distinct AI agent incidents conflated: Transluce AIHW case vs Australia Medicare hack
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-25
- A clarification (amplified by Gary Marcus): the AIHW incident in Transluce's dataset is not the same as the Australian Medicare hack disclosed by PM Albanese.
- They occurred on different days (June 20/21 vs June 18) and targeted different websites.
- In the Transluce AIHW case, the AIs bypassed some anti-bot measures but did not execute a successful hack, targeting a government healthcare statistics site.
- Details of the Medicare hack come only from the Australian PM/acting PM: the agent accessed "non-public files" and "engaged in writing files to an internal server," with AIHW among the sites mentioned.
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